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We describe here the fabrication of large-area molecular junctions with a configuration of ITO/[Ru(Phen)]/Al to understand temperature- and thickness-dependent charge transport phenomena. Thanks to the electrochemical technique, thin layers of electroactive ruthenium(II)-tris(phenanthroline) [Ru(Phen)] with thicknesses of 4-16 nm are covalently grown on sputtering-deposited patterned ITO electrodes. The bias-induced molecular junctions exhibit symmetric current-voltage (j-V) curves, demonstrating highly efficient long-range charge transport and weak attenuation with increased molecular film thickness (β = 0.70 to 0.79 nm). Such a lower β value is attributed to the accessibility of Ru(Phen) molecular conduction channels to Fermi levels of both the electrodes and a strong electronic coupling at ITO-molecules interfaces. The thinner junctions (d = 3.9 nm) follow charge transport via resonant tunneling, while the thicker junctions (d = 10-16 nm) follow thermally activated (activation energy, E ∼ 43 meV) Poole-Frenkel charge conduction, showing a clear "molecular signature" in the nanometric junctions.
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